Misadventures at 720nm

Not that ho. The other ho. My hand to god.

My stunningly expensive 15 euro webcam turns out to be super-sensitive to infrared light. I popped an R72 infrared filter on the front and got some surprisingly clear and usable images/video.

I apologize for the quality of an image; I was trying to screencap the scene while holding an R72 lens filter over the front of the webcam, which in turn was wobbly. My next step is to look at the fun and creative things I can do with a webcam, beyond the webstream and time-lapse projects I blogged about on the other site.

Star trails and astronomy immediately come to mind.

Suggestions, please. :]